Fictional characters can be created with any amount of exaggeration as needed because there’s no benchmark to compare them with. Sure, the characters can be inspired by real people, but the makers are free to present the fictional characters with as much exaggeration as they want, without any obstruction. However, what do you do when the inspiration for your character is erratic and unhinged in real life, and the TV series you’re making is the dramatization of the actual person? This was the situation White House Plumbers showrunners Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck were faced with when coming up with a character who could capture the eccentric nature of former FBI agent, G. Gordon Liddy.
If you’ve watched any of the interviews by the man himself, you’ll note that Gordon Liddy was a charismatic man like no other, and he exuded charm. However, there is a...
If you’ve watched any of the interviews by the man himself, you’ll note that Gordon Liddy was a charismatic man like no other, and he exuded charm. However, there is a...
- 6/1/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
Loyalty is a two-way street, but unfortunately, it’s often the higher-ups who seem to forget that they need to repay the loyalty that once saved their skin. The same thing quickly transpired in the final episode of the HBO miniseries White House Plumbers, as events picked up right after Dorothy’s death in the plane crash. As the trial for bugging the DNC reaches a tipping point, Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy start thinking of ways to approach the matter individually, though vastly different in their manner of approach. Let’s find out what all happened in the White House Plumbers finale.
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What Happens During The Trial Phase?
During Dorothy’s funeral, All that Gordon can do is ask the grieving Howard if he’s still writing the tell-all book exposing the involvement of the higher-ups. Apparently, right before Dorothy got on the plane, she’d gotten $200k in insurance,...
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What Happens During The Trial Phase?
During Dorothy’s funeral, All that Gordon can do is ask the grieving Howard if he’s still writing the tell-all book exposing the involvement of the higher-ups. Apparently, right before Dorothy got on the plane, she’d gotten $200k in insurance,...
- 5/30/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
HBO’s dramatization of the infamous 1972 Watergate scandal, White House Plumbers, reached a melting point this week when the two most important plumbers came under legal fire. After Jim McCord forgot to remove a piece of tape from the door of the DNC building they snuck into in the previous week’s episode, the FBI and the cops traced their way to Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy. Now, as the pressure mounts for both of them with financial and legal troubles reaching an all-time high, here’s what happens in this week’s episode of White House Plumbers.
The fourth episode is all about cleaning up the mess that the White House Plumbers created in the DNC Building, and now that the FBI and the police are barging into the homes of Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt, they need to save their skin. Howard wakes up his son Saint John...
The fourth episode is all about cleaning up the mess that the White House Plumbers created in the DNC Building, and now that the FBI and the police are barging into the homes of Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt, they need to save their skin. Howard wakes up his son Saint John...
- 5/23/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
HBO’s dramatization of the 1972 Watergate scandal, White House Plumbers, is a blueprint of what Not to do when you’re infiltrating a highly secretive government building. Based on the arrests made during a break-in attempt to gather information on President Nixon’s opponent, the show represents how former CIA and FBI operatives Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy fumbled the plan, which led to their subsequent arrests. Starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux in the lead roles, here’s what happens in the third episode and what became of the crew during the fourth break-in attempt.
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The Second Attempt
If obstinacy and hard-headedness were an Olympic sport, Gordon Liddy would be winning prizes left and right, right beside Howard Hunt, competing for the sport to prove your doubters wrong. The third episode of “White House Plumbers,” based on the 1972 Watergate scandal, demonstrates how the Plumbers’ crew found themselves...
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The Second Attempt
If obstinacy and hard-headedness were an Olympic sport, Gordon Liddy would be winning prizes left and right, right beside Howard Hunt, competing for the sport to prove your doubters wrong. The third episode of “White House Plumbers,” based on the 1972 Watergate scandal, demonstrates how the Plumbers’ crew found themselves...
- 5/16/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
White House Plumbers shouldn’t require a spoiler warning. The HBO miniseries is about the Watergate scandal. But, since it’s told from the perspective of Nixon’s political saboteurs, E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux), the five-episode satirical drama covers a ton of ground that the average person is likely coming upon for the first time.
“There are a lot of people who know Nixon resigned, maybe they’ve heard the word Watergate, maybe they only know ‘gate,’ like they’ve seen this-gate and that-gate. There’s an opportunity here to just let people know what President Nixon did. It’s a story where, maybe it’s been long enough that it’s time to remind people. But now, let’s go one step further,” said David Mandel, who directed all five episodes and is an executive producer alongside the show’s creators and writers,...
“There are a lot of people who know Nixon resigned, maybe they’ve heard the word Watergate, maybe they only know ‘gate,’ like they’ve seen this-gate and that-gate. There’s an opportunity here to just let people know what President Nixon did. It’s a story where, maybe it’s been long enough that it’s time to remind people. But now, let’s go one step further,” said David Mandel, who directed all five episodes and is an executive producer alongside the show’s creators and writers,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HBO released the second episode of its dramatization of the infamous 1972 Watergate scandal, titled White House Plumbers,”\ in which two men take up the duty of re-electing President Nixon. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux) become part of the committee tasked with doing whatever might be needed to get Nixon back in the chair for a second term, and in the process, they do multiple things that are questionable from a legal standpoint. As the events inch towards the main Watergate scandal, here’s what happens on the second episode of HBO’s White House Plumbers.
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A Not-Family Man
Before we get into the events of the episode, though, it’s important to look at how much like a dictator Howard acts in his home, although he’s the brains at work. Always busy with work, Howard rarely has time to take care of the...
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A Not-Family Man
Before we get into the events of the episode, though, it’s important to look at how much like a dictator Howard acts in his home, although he’s the brains at work. Always busy with work, Howard rarely has time to take care of the...
- 5/9/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
The big developments in May: summer movie season kicks off in earnest with new Marvel movies and the latest in a long-running, car-centric franchise, Fast X, while a major streaming service undergoes a name change (or at least a name shortening).
On May 23, HBO Max becomes simply Max, but it will still be home to HBO series. Got that? Good. Because there’s plenty to watch on HBO, Max, all the other streaming services and networks and it’s a busy month in theaters, too.
Let’s start with a...
On May 23, HBO Max becomes simply Max, but it will still be home to HBO series. Got that? Good. Because there’s plenty to watch on HBO, Max, all the other streaming services and networks and it’s a busy month in theaters, too.
Let’s start with a...
- 5/3/2023
- by Keith Phipps
- Rollingstone.com
The infamous Watergate scandal has been covered in popular culture quite a few times, but HBO’s take on the whole matter makes the latest installment even more entertaining. Starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy, respectively, White House Plumbers showcases the break-in attempts that happened at Democratic National Committee H.Q. at the Watergate office. The episode opens with the title card showing that all the characters have the names of the people they’re based on and follows the dramatization of the second break-in attempt of the four total attempts that were made. Before we get into the story, let’s get to know our two protagonists, Howard and Gordon.
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Howard Hunt: A Liberal-Hating PR Nightmare
Hunt would’ve been canceled if he had a social media account in 2023, that’s for certain. Given his extremely conservative views about liberalism and...
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Howard Hunt: A Liberal-Hating PR Nightmare
Hunt would’ve been canceled if he had a social media account in 2023, that’s for certain. Given his extremely conservative views about liberalism and...
- 5/2/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
This post contains minor spoilers for the premiere of "White House Plumbers."
HBO's newest miniseries "White House Plumbers" introduces us to G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux), a pretty strange guy. Before co-protagonist Howard Hunt meets him, he's told an anecdote about the man: "[Liddy] has a thing that he does to prove his commitment. He'll hold his hand in the flame of a candle... He gets third-degree burns every time. Never flinches."
Even mere first-degree burns are incredibly painful, so it's easy to see how this can be interpreted as a pretty badass move on Liddy's part. Talking about it in his 1976 autobiography "Will," Liddy even gave readers an example of how he used this technique to win the trust of a potential candidate for his and Hunt's escapades, a woman named Sherry Stevens:
"I told her to light her cigarette lighter and hold it out. She did and I locked...
HBO's newest miniseries "White House Plumbers" introduces us to G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux), a pretty strange guy. Before co-protagonist Howard Hunt meets him, he's told an anecdote about the man: "[Liddy] has a thing that he does to prove his commitment. He'll hold his hand in the flame of a candle... He gets third-degree burns every time. Never flinches."
Even mere first-degree burns are incredibly painful, so it's easy to see how this can be interpreted as a pretty badass move on Liddy's part. Talking about it in his 1976 autobiography "Will," Liddy even gave readers an example of how he used this technique to win the trust of a potential candidate for his and Hunt's escapades, a woman named Sherry Stevens:
"I told her to light her cigarette lighter and hold it out. She did and I locked...
- 5/1/2023
- by Michael Boyle
- Slash Film
Looking for your next binge-watch, or just need to fill an hour? Welcome to Your Weekly Watch List, our curated collection of the best shows on television. Here’s what to watch from Sunday, April 30 through Saturday, May 6.
This week, Fatal Attraction becomes a star-studded limited series, infamous White House Plumbers Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy (Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux) are the GOP operatives who can’t shoot straight, former Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson moves back home in the autobiographical Bupkis, and lots more.
Sunday, Paramount+...
This week, Fatal Attraction becomes a star-studded limited series, infamous White House Plumbers Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy (Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux) are the GOP operatives who can’t shoot straight, former Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson moves back home in the autobiographical Bupkis, and lots more.
Sunday, Paramount+...
- 4/30/2023
- by Dennis Perkins
- Primetimer
Domhnall Gleeson has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Steve Carell in The Patient, FX’s 10-episode half-hour limited series from The Americans creative duo Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, and FX Productions.
Also joining the cast are Linda Emond, Laura Niemi and Andrew Leeds.
Co-written by Fields and Weisberg, in The Patient, a psychotherapist (Carell) finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer (Gleeson) with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges. But unwinding the mind of this man while also dealing with the waves of his own repressed troubles creates a journey perhaps as treacherous as his captivity.
Chris Long has come on board as an executive producer and will direct the first two episodes of the series, with production scheduled to begin this week. Kevin Bray and Gwyneth Horder-Payton will also be directing on the series.
Fields and Weisberg executive produce along with Carell, Caroline Moore, Victor Hsu and Long.
The Tony-nominated Gleeson recently finished a sold-out run of Enda Walsh’s play Medicine at New York’s St. Ann’s Warehouse. He’ll next be seen in David Mandel’s HBO limited series White House Plumbers in the role of John Dean opposite Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, respectively. Recently, Gleeson appeared in Frank of Ireland for Channel 4 and Amazon, a series he also co-produced and wrote with Michael Moloney and brother Brian Gleeson, and in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway opposite Rose Byrne and James Corden.
Gleeson is repped by Paradigm and The Agency.
Also joining the cast are Linda Emond, Laura Niemi and Andrew Leeds.
Co-written by Fields and Weisberg, in The Patient, a psychotherapist (Carell) finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer (Gleeson) with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges. But unwinding the mind of this man while also dealing with the waves of his own repressed troubles creates a journey perhaps as treacherous as his captivity.
Chris Long has come on board as an executive producer and will direct the first two episodes of the series, with production scheduled to begin this week. Kevin Bray and Gwyneth Horder-Payton will also be directing on the series.
Fields and Weisberg executive produce along with Carell, Caroline Moore, Victor Hsu and Long.
The Tony-nominated Gleeson recently finished a sold-out run of Enda Walsh’s play Medicine at New York’s St. Ann’s Warehouse. He’ll next be seen in David Mandel’s HBO limited series White House Plumbers in the role of John Dean opposite Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, respectively. Recently, Gleeson appeared in Frank of Ireland for Channel 4 and Amazon, a series he also co-produced and wrote with Michael Moloney and brother Brian Gleeson, and in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway opposite Rose Byrne and James Corden.
Gleeson is repped by Paradigm and The Agency.
- 1/11/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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